Gain an edge in your career through our integrated professional development course, ongoing personalized advising, and connections through the Dolan network.
Learn beyond the classroom with your cohort and experience business in the global economy with a one-week study in a selected country.
Boost your resume while completing a practical business capstone project based on your passion, synthesizing what you have learned in the program, and solving a real-world challenge.
Our professional, supportive, and seasoned faculty support your goals and empower you to succeed in the classroom and beyond.
Our program is for you if you have little to no full-time work experience. The program’s goal is to enable candidates to flourish in a variety of jobs or to start their own businesses. Here is what makes the program unique compared to an MBA:
30 credits: Tuition is $35,850 ($1,170 per credit hour)
Please see the Tuition and Financial Aid page for more information.
The MSM degree program at Fairfield University is open to students with a bachelor’s degree in any discipline. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. The MSM is a cohort program beginning each summer semester.
Application Priority Deadline: Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, and we will work with you right up to the start of classes for program acceptance. For priority consideration, your application and all supplemental materials must be received no later than three weeks prior to the start of each term. For any questions about application deadlines, please request more information.
No GMAT/GRE required.
It’s easy to apply. Here are the steps:
Lisa Stafford has over 30 years of experience in the banking, insurance, healthcare, and academic industries, providing leadership coaching to top executives on human capital strategy. She has headed up Corporate Training, Learning and Development and Talent Management organizations. At Aetna for over 20 years, Lisa worked closely with the direct reports to the CEO, and their staff organizations. Lisa has held leadership positions in senior HR Client areas, Corporate Education, Staffing and Organization Development.
We prepare you with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to navigate your new business career successfully. Leverage our unrivaled career resources and extensive alumni network to support your next career move.
Credits – 3
This course examines the basic concepts necessary to understand the information provided by financial and managerial accounting systems. The focus is on interpretation of basic information, as students learn about internal and external financial reporting. Topics include: accrual accounting; revenue and expense recognition; accounting for assets, liabilities, and equities; accumulation and assignment of costs to products and services; and budgeting. Previously AC 0400.
Credits – 1.5
This course focuses on quantitative modeling and analyzing business problems using spreadsheet software, such as Excel and its add-ins. Topics include descriptive analytics, visualizing and exploring data, predictive modeling, regression analysis, time series analysis, portfolio decisions, risk management, and simulation. Business models relevant to finance, accounting, marketing, and operations management are set up and solved, with managerial interpretations and “what if” analyses to provide further insight into real business problems and solutions. Open to MS Management students only. Previously BA 0410, BUAN 5410.
Credits – 1.5
This course is designed to provide an introduction to the underlying concepts and theories of microeconomics. Students will learn ideas and methodologies that help them to understand how markets behave, and how they are impacted by local, national, and international events. They will explore the behavior of consumers and producers in markets for goods and services, as well as global economic structures. They will assess the outcomes of market activity, and explore alternative methods of allocating resources when markets are determined to have failed. Previously EC 0410.
Credits – 1.5
Statistics is defined as a branch of mathematics dealing with the collection, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of masses of numerical data. This course will teach students the fundamentals of statistical analysis with an eye towards economic and business applications. Students will also learn about the limitations of statistics, and how to properly apply principles and present analytical results. Previously EC 0415.
Credits – 3
This course examines the fundamental principles of modern finance that are helpful in understanding corporate finance, investments, and financial markets. More specifically, the course examines the time value of money; the functioning of capital markets; valuation of stocks, bonds, and corporate investments; risk measurement; and risk management. Students learn to use sources of financial data and spreadsheets to solve financial problems. Previously FI 0400.
Credits – 1.5
This course examines micro level organizational behavior theories as applied to organizational settings. Topics will include motivation, leadership, interpersonal relations, group dynamics, and strategies for organizational culture and change. Previously MG 0410.
Credits – 3
Effective leadership provides a competitive advantage for an organization in the marketplace. The goal of this course is to enhance students’ ability to successfully lead in an innovative, dynamic, global environment, building their confidence level to successfully lead in the 21st century. Building from a best practice “real-world” approach students will be given the opportunity to increase their knowledge and skill level through self-assessments, case studies, assignments, and experiential learning. An impactful set of strategies and techniques will be presented, covering situational leadership theories and practices, leading in multiple geographies and cultures, navigating team/organizational dynamics, influencing and motivating meaningful change, shaping culture, and creating vision and strategic direction. Previously MG 0500.
Credits – 1.5
This course is designed to provide a solid basis in legal and ethical reasoning that can support effective decision-making about a wide range of complex business issues. Employing active learning methods, it efficiently provides students with the capacity to think independently in an informed, carefully reasoned way. Course content includes select legal topics, rules and concepts, models of legal reasoning and ethical analysis, and the relationship between the two. Previously MG 0509.
Credits – 3
Human Resource Strategy is the linkage between human resource management (HRM) and firm strategy, contributing to competitive advantage of the firm. Human capital, which is knowledge, skills and abilities (KSA) of people, is one of the strategic assets of the firm. HRM entails recruitment and selection, training and development, total compensation and rewards, performance management, employee relations (such as diversity management, work life balance, legal and ethical compliance, safety issues) and other people related practices. In this course students will analyze how these practices can be aligned with the strategy of the firm and lead to greater firm performance. The students will take an analytics approach to generate for effectively managing employees so that business goals can be reached quickly and efficiently. the challenge of human resources analytics is to identify what data should be captured and how to use the data to model and predict capabilities so the organization gets an optimal return on investment (ROI) on its human capital. Previously MG 0505.
Credits – 3
This course uses the theories of negotiation and alternative dispute resolution, along with extensive experiential exercises, to build individual negotiation skills and to help students manage disputes from a business perspective. The course emphasizes ways of managing both internal and external disputes. Previously MG 0507.
Credits – 0
The purpose of this course is to aid the process of professional career development at the graduate level. Students will develop professional resumes, practice interviewing skills, and develop a robust LinkedIn social media presence for networking in the job market. Previously MG 0515.
Credits – 3
This course covers entrepreneurship and small business management. The course focuses on the development of entrepreneurial start-up ventures from the point of view of the founding entrepreneur. The course explores characteristics and skills of successful entrepreneurs, the stages of growth of entrepreneurial businesses, the crises in start-up ventures, and issues confronting family and small business management. Students may create their own start-up business plan in conjunction with faculty as the primary course requirement. Previously MG 0530.
Credits – 3
This course considers the formulation of effective policy and accompanying strategy actions, and the management of such policies and actions. It examines the role of the general manager in this process and presents the diversified issues and problems the management of a business firm may be required to consider and solve in strategic planning. This course also examines the problems and tasks of strategy implementation and the general manager’s function of achieving expected objectives and establishing new ones to assure the continuity of the business organization. Students are required to prepare a business plan as part of this course. Previously MG 0584.
Credits – 1.5
This course will provide students with the understanding of the role of marketing in the modern corporation. The course integrates the fundamental concepts of marketing with the newest trends in digital and social media marketing. Emphasis will be placed on how firms execute marketing strategy utilizing the latest digital tools. Open to MS Management students only. Previously MK 0410.
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